Photog gets an oversized visitor

11:31 PM,
May 15, 2013

Photographer Matt Rose was surprised by a rather large visitor to his bird feeder, which is on a second-floor deck.

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Photo by Matt Rose

This has been a busy week for bears. The newspaper had readers send in photos of bears on their decks and lawns, and on Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service issued a bear alert in Haywood County.

Photographer Matt Rose snapped this shot of a cub on his back deck in South Asheville. The longtime photographer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, who now shoots a variety of subjects for area publications, sent us this description: